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twelve years, I have seen many people chastised for

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wanting to belong to a union, and I know fire fighters

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in the City of Baltimore who on a given morning would

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report to a work station in Curtis Bay only to be trans-

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ferred to another station at Edmonds Village, a punish-

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ment for their union activities.

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At Baltimore in the Fire Department, the

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employees are rated by an efficiency rating. The top

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rating is 81. If you make a choice to support the

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union which I did, you will never make it. After twelve

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years I have not, but I can show you many with five years

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of service and no union activities who have already

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reached 81. I want the record to be abundantly clear that

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I personally admire those people who have the courage of

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their convictions and that I will have to do an awful

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lot of soul-searching, between about now and next

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Wednesday, before I can affix my signature to a document

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patterned primarily for the business interests of the

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Bar Association and their widows.

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